Keith Drury at Indiana Wesleyan University has published an article on different speed-reading techniques that you can use to speed up and tweak your reading.

I was a Bible college student when one of our chapels featured a guest speaker who taught us how to speed-read. At the time I didn't need the skill since most collateral reading assignments in my courses were under 500 pages, but I started practicing just for the fun of it — sort of like a private parlor game. However all that changed when I wound up in graduate school at Princeton Seminary and several Profs. expected me to read several thousand pages of collateral along with the five or six textbooks. That's when I got serious about speed reading. Here is the collection of what I practiced then, and picked up since.

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I don't know anyone who isn't at least intrigued by the idea of being able to read and comprehend at a much quicker clip, but I must admit I've always been a bit dubious of speed-reading claims. That said, I'm all for speed-reading techniques if they work out.

I'm sure there are some Lifehacker readers who've experimented with speed reading. Give us your thoughts and tips in the comments, or send an email to tips at lifehacker.com.